It took pianist Evgeny Kissin much of the first half of his recital to fully hit his stride. But when he did, with a dynamic, expansive performance of Frédéric Chopin’s Scherzo No. 4, the packed ...

Since “Nobu Fever” entered the piano world’s vocabulary after ... telling across with unstrained bravura. The two 1835 Chopin nocturnes (op. 27, no. 1 and 2) that opened the second half ...

Chopin didn’t invent the form of the piano nocturne, but he took John Field’s innovation to a completely new level of poetry and intricacy. Within these short works, Lane found surprising contrasts in ...